Impact magnitudes applied by surgeons and their importance when applying the femoral head onto the Morse taper for total hip arthroplasty

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 793-796

  Heiney, Jake P ^a   Battula, Suneel ^b   Vrabec, Gregory A ^c   Parikh, Anand ^b   Blice, Rebecca ^b   Schoenfeld, Andrew J ^c   Njus, Glenn O ^b  

^a PROMEDICA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b The University of Akron   (United States)

^c AKRON GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomechanical testing; Impaction force; Modularity; Morse taper; Trunnion

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMUR HEAD; FORCE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; WEIGHT BEARING;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BIOMECHANICS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMUR HEAD; HIP PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INTERNSHIP AND RESIDENCY; ORTHOPEDICS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67349248397     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-008-0660-4     Document Type: Article

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